S8E111: Charlotte Mason in the Early Years with Jeannette Tullis
But give the child work that nature intended for him and the quantity he can get through with ease is practically unlimited. Whoever saw a child tired of seeing, of examining, in his own way, unfamiliar things? This is the sort of mental nourishment for which he has an unbounded appetite, because it is the food of the mind on which for the present, he is meant to grow.
Charlotte Mason, from Home Education, p. 67
Show Summary:
- In this week’s episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn talk with Jeannette Tullis about implementing Kindergarten in harmony with Charlotte Mason’s methods
- What was Charlotte Mason’s approach to early childhood education?
- Is the idea of modern early education a myth?
- What do you do about writing or narration during the kindergarten years?
- How Jeannette makes reading aloud interactive
- Do parents need a curriculum to guide them through the early years?
- How do you choose good quality picture books?
- What can parents do to keep records in states where it is required?
- Plus: a sidebar about Jeannette’s CM Sunday School lesson
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Books and Links Mentioned:
The Heroes of Hartford by Genevieve Cross
Bread-and-Butter Indian by Ann Colver
Father Fox’s Pennyrhymes by Clyde Watson
When the Rooster Crows by Maud and Miska Petersham
George Washington Wasn’t Always Old by Alice Fleming
The Man Born to Be King by Dorothy Sayers
Jeannette’s Notes on Kinder Garden
Jeannette’s Favorite Picture Book Authors
Jeannette’s Favorite Nature Book Authors
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We wish the children to grow up to find joy and refreshment in the taste, the flavour of a book. We do not mean by a book any printed matter in a binding, but a work possessing literary qualities able to bring that sensible delight to the reader which belongs to a literary word fitly spoken.
Charlotte Mason, from Parents and Children, p. 262
